Reunited

by Wishing-for-a-Wand

July 27, 1954 - One year after the Korean Armistice, the old campmates meet up in a New York hotel for what will become an annual celebration. They come dealing with the changes of a year at home, the struggles of the war they lived through, and the hope that being together brings. A series of drabbles about the first MASH 4077 reunion. Some funny, some sweet, some sad, all MASH.

10. Priorities

Baby Cy Young was fussing in his arms, and Klinger decided his son might need to visit the latrine. He bounced the infant gently as he headed for the door, making cooing noises to soothe the child. There was a table next to the door that didn't have any label, and Klinger paused to see what it held.

There was a framed photo and a large specimen jar holding twenty dollars. A sign of its own proclaimed it to be "The Henry Blake Memorial Fund," proceeds going to help put the departed colonel's three children through school.

The baby was starting to fuss again, but Klinger continued to rock him as he pried another twenty from his own wallet and stuffed it into the jar.

This trip to New York was already a strain on his minimum wage income, and whatever money he and Soon Lee ever scraped together tended to go toward rent or diapers. But as he told his crying son, "Some things matter more."